Reply #38: Tom Petty has a great song...

[Eat_The_Rich]

...about the current state of the record industry on his album "The Last DJ". The song is called Joe and it goes like this:

My name's Joe I'm the CEO
I'm the man makes the big wheels roll
I'm the hand on the great lightswitch
You get to be famous, I get to be rich

Give me a kid with a good lookin face
Give me a kid can remeber his place
Some hungry, poor, son of a bitch
You get to be famous, I get to be rich

So give me a girl, there always the best
You put 'em on stage and you have 'em undress
Some angel whore who can learn a guitar lick
Hey, now that's what I call music

Well they come lookin for money when their public gets bored
But we'll fight 'em with lawyers they can never afford
Yea I'll make her look like a spoiled little bitch
She gets to be famous, I get to be rich


Well burned out Johnny thinks are books are shifty
What goods that alki to me when he's 50
Well we could move catalog if he'd only die quicker
Send my regards to the gig and a case of good liquor
He gets to be famous, I get to be rich

You get the idea!